The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 20, 1925, Page 1

‘. Insure the DAILY. WORKER To the Last Spike! Before March 5. Vol. II. No. 34. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: TEXTILE BARONS’ STACK GOES NEW YORK EDITION In Chicago. by mail, $8100 per year. Published daily except Synday“by THE DAILY WORKER Outside Chicagc, by mail, $6.00 per year. PUBLISHING CO,, 1113 W. Washington Blvd:; Chicago, IIL COMMUNISTS LAUNCH BIG FIGHT COMMUNISTS IN IN CITY ALDERMANIC CAMPAIGN; > Price 3 Cents Nations Squabble Over Calling of BARONS © $s Disarmament Meet ’ UP FROM $5 10 Gey p"AFr en hg DFRONT MACHINISTS’ LODGE BACKS PARTY PRUSSIAN DIET ar} 8Ox GENEVA, Feb. 18.—Sharp opposi- ieee i Ki wewnan AVE 'S0 tion developed today over Great Brit- The Workers (Communist) Party has issued {ts platform for the four EPPS Ny ain’s proposal to postpone a discussion wards in which Communists are on the ballot. A big campaign will be of limitation of armament. Great Britain suggested yesterday that the conference be delayed until May 4 when America would be represented. France, Spain, Czecho-Slovakia in secret .meeting today decided there should be no delay. ‘ Delegate Jouhaux of France crit- icized the United States, ~ “The attitude of the United States is nothing new,” he said. “We cannot wait for America. Adjourning . until America co-operates is adjourning in- definitely.” Italy, Japan and Sweden supported the British proposal for an adjourn- ment. waged from now until election day, Feb. 24, The program issued by the Workers (Communist) Party in the 84th ward, where Harry Broooker is the Communist candidate, challenges David McVey, Brooker’s “progressive” opponent, to take a definite stand on issues vitally affecting Chicago’s workers. The candidacy of Nicholas Dozenberg, representing the Workers (Com- munist) Party in the 28th ward, was unanimously indorsed by Lodge 478, of the International Association of Machinists, at its last meeting. The other two candidates of the Workers (Communist) Party are L. Cejka, candidate in the 22nd ward, and Hyman Epstein in the 24th ward. “David McVey, my opponent representing the “progressive party of Mllinois, says he stands for ‘real schools, not fire traps.” Brooker, who is a member of the Typographical Union, told the DAILY WORKER, “But McVey offers no real solution for getting real schools. I propose new school build- WHILE THEY burus'.”... ES How the wage earner’s loss in the stockholder’s gain is shown by the advance in ‘the price of textile mill stock during. the period when low wages were being slashed still further. According to The Wall Street Jornal, in the course of 3 weeks the advance in leading textile stocks ranged from $5 to $30 a $620 to $645 a share, Ar’ share. Appleton mills rose from on $100 to $107, Berkshire $141 to $148, Draper $160 to Ser Dwight $45 to $50, Farr Alpaca $175 to $185, Hamilton Mfg. Ty Com nT TT Te oT GO. $47 tO.S88, FHI S100 to $110, Lyman $117 to $123, Naum- keag $185 to $195, Peppercell FLAY ROBBERS Introduce Motion to Probe Ruhr Blast (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Feb. 18—The Prussian : diet was in turmoil today when the es, new Prussian premier, former Chancel- lor Marx, outlined the government's program. Communists shouted: of North and ‘the Same By ROBERT MINOR (Special to The Daily Worker) ) R. |, Feb, 18—The is drive against the ‘ing hours and con- labor in New Eng- derstood only if it is oad perspective, ditiona of te land, can Be td ings, cost to be carried by a levy on “Ruhr swindler!” AS WE SEE IT $120 to $140. Saoo-Lowell $47 ences eenet etree re aa bra re aitan wealthy tax dodgers; education to be 4 ’ They were alluding to the govern- ; tuation. Even trol of teachers’, parents’ nt paying industrialists of the Ruhr to $52, Sanford $183 2 J ses under control of teachers’, pi 8 ment paying Mee eSeteet ee pBaiog Falls Sites a7, soe and militant workers | and students’ councils. I demand that district inc es for loss sustained i ; : towns are inclined | maintenance of working class children thru occupation by the allied troops. Point from $131 to $138 NLY a few weeks ago, the na-| This gain in the. value of tex. AMONG JOBLESS Se bane crisis in too) during school period be guaranteed The Communists introdused ® mio» : i as being.a problem of|by the city government.” tion to determine the cause of the tional secretary of the young|tile stocks meant an increase of this or that mill! «ycyey declares that the Chicago mine disas t Dortmund last week, people's socialist league, an auxil-/Of hundreds of thousands of i actually let their con- ; traction problem has been a political football long enough, and wants speed, seats and lower fares. But McVey says not a word as to how to get them,” declares Brooker. In speaking to the one hundred machinists present at the meeting which indorsed his candidacy, Com- tade Dozenberg declared, “I am proud to say that I am very much partisan to and in favor of the working class, dollars in the wealth of the owners. The price indicate that the much talked of ‘“depres- BERLIN, Feb. 18.—The reprisal@ / — which Roumania has threatened to Police Are on Guard As City Asks for Confab | Minister Stresemann told the foreign take against Germany depended upon | what answer Germany makes to the The strike of the two thousand |rejations committee. street cleaners and garbage collec-| stresemann said Roumania had not jary of the socialist party, turned in his membership card in that bankrupt organization and joined the Workers (Communist) . Party. Last week an-|sion” did not undermine con- other ‘young rebel who hoped against | fidence in the ability of the in- hope that the socialist party could be /dustry to profit by squeezing transformed into a weapon of the|the workers, by the state bound- ‘the. various little New es; Rhode Island, Con- each little more than stern county jand al) being one industrial that it could usefully as a.sigle huge city. plus Into “The South” IN CLEVELAND 37,000 kaolin forWork During Last 2 Months By GEORGE PAPCUN. (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELANND, Ohio, Feb. 18, — aries (1) England necticut, € Roumanian note demanding a settle ment of its reparation claims, Foreign ists. .The youth organization of the socialists is, but the ghost. of an or- ganization. It is afflicted: with the Authentic figures solicited from one to a single, huge, all-!anq no other class. I am proud of my ane cots goat lid biden este bad sane tee Sie fend bas same disease that has brot its parent employment office in this city give the city’ is not sufficient. membership in the organized labor Friday. ea picid sg oan Suing eee to the brink of the grave. following facts: movement and my association with a y F " see d cotton textile oligar- past five or six years tens and scores of mil- plus capital into North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama. Today, it is more cotton spindles 6 southern states than in Deputy Street Superintendent Will- iam J. Galligan says he has asked Michael Carrozzo, president of the Street Cleaners’ Union, for a confer- ence to take place Friday afternoon at three o’clock in the department of public workers, city hall. Refuse to Stay Uncollected. Galligan added that no attempt would be made to clean the streets or collect garbage until after this con-! ference, “The street cleaners are striking not only for a raise in pay, but as a protest becausé-they did not receive their month’s pay on January 5,” says Carrozzo. “There are 7§0 sstpeet Sweepers, 250 foremen, 708 teamsters, and’ 80 truckmen on strike. We are asking for a raise of fifty cents a day for the street cleaners, and section foremen, and $1.50 a day per crew fér the teamsters.” The teamsters are now paid $10.50 a day for themselves and team. The street cleaners are paid $5.00 a day. Police Called Out. Police were on guard at all ward offices of the street cleaning depart- ment. The strike. was 100 per cent effective, with all the street clean- ers and garbage collectors being out. (Continued on page 2.) man occupation of Roumanian terri- tory during the war. DES MOINES, IA., IS PARADISE OF = LITTLE BUSINESS By DAVID COUTTS. (Special to The Dally Worker) DES MOINES, Ia., Feb. 18. —First impressions of this hustling little town are that everybody seems busy and happy. Crowds moved to and fro in the business section, which covers many blocks and has a nuriber of large stores that makes the visitor wonder where the trade comes from Upon inquiry we legrn that there are no large manufacturing plants, but many small ones, Ford assembling plant is the largest and employs about 600. the working class movement and the Workers (Communist) Party.” Many copies ef the DAILY WORKER were sold at-the meeting: The municipal. voters league made “no recommendation” in Comrade Do- zenberg’s ward. He was classified as (Continued on page 2) TEACHERS ARE NOT CONSULTED ON NEW SCHOOLS Results Chew They Are Miserable Failures Altho the administration committee of the board of education spent fully one and a half hours discussing the naming of sixteen new school build- ings that are to be erected in Chicago within the next few months, not one word of mention was made of the type of buildings to be erected or the personnel of the committee who de- cides this important question. Further inquiry of the business manager, John Byrnes, and of presi- dent of the board of education, Charles Moderwell, brought the ad- mission that neither the Teachers’ Federation nor any other teachers’ or- ganization has been consulted on the type of new school. buildings. When Moderwell was informed that in other cities, New York, for ex- ample, new school buildings were put up which are proving utter failures insofar as the teachers’ and children’s comfort is concerned he asked “Do you mean that we should consult with the teachers?” Applied for work during the months of December and January: 37,000. Those given jobs during the same UT what about our .young Com- munist organization, the Young Workers’ League? What indeed? | ir million bales of cotton and a quarter million in the north, while Were employed in the 300,000 in the North. LaFollette’s Dream Town. Des Moines would appear to be the goal and paradise of little business. Here LaFollette would find his dream come true. Monopoly has apparently. (Continued on Page 4.) HELP WANTED AT ONCE! IVE hundred comrades wanted as actors and actresses for the Parts Commune Pageant, to be held March 15, at the Madison Square Garden, This Is the opportunity of a life-time for the Workers Party membere wh¢@ aspire to become stage stars. We are mow giving you this opportunity. You will not only have the able guidance of Alexander Arkatow, recently arrived from Russia, where’ he directed “The Dawn,” a production having 60,000 workers as actors, Ho is now producing “Peter, the Great,” at the Jewish Art Theater. But what; is of greater importance, is that you are essential to put this dramatiel ITH a bi-weekly and a monthly, one would” imagine that the Young Workers’ League was all fixed tor propaganda machinery. But being a growing organism, it does not relish the thot of standing still. It began to hustle for a weekly. The weekly is about here. The first issue appropri- ately enuf will be a special one to fight child labor. The best writers in the Workers Party and the Young Workers’ League will contribute. Be on the look out for it. And do not for- Here’s what. - The- first issue of its * * weekly propaganda paper will appear Cramer Lined Up with egg Serie REL ee is Oe on ‘the ‘rst’ of “March. ‘In’ 1922 the the Faker Van Lear The numbers applying for jobs Young’ Workers’ League had a month- | during the months of October: and ly that “appeared every once in a) By CARL SKOGLUND. November of 1924 were 33,000, and while. It tried hard to be a monthly.) - MINNEAUOLIS, Minn., Feb. 18.—At| those receiving employment during It was like the “Toonerville Trolley | the regular meeting of the city cen-|the same period amounted to approx- that caught all trains.” - Nothing the| tral committee of the farmer-labor imately 12,000. matter with the paper except that the | federation of Minneapolis, held Mon- Jobs Are Part Time league was poor, small in number| day ‘evening, plans were laid for the and inflinitesmally small in influence... ‘ling of a labor candidate for. mayor aes? ee = oe ae ble ‘rod The officers of the league had that] ind a complete labor ticket for all . berg . hs sear pe Rbaato 2 et age lean and hungry look that is associ-| city Offictt..4.snecial committee was oe ho a seritonw ja Pee B ated withbad.men.. «+ stigate all ay le period i be hint ore re 5 il sain eta montar 2h wet ak tthe i charge or thoes waplasSGnt peas es PICS the crete Ce UT they survived and so did th Denia March 2, at which tiie can. }ffices that-many of the jobs supplied to igs States and the Northern sreeree TRAE SNOT STORE PY Y sro arill he chbebe: were only temporary, in a good many | manufacturimg ‘states; and this little uneasy stages as all revolutionary of- x instances for two and three days |New Englantgroup formed the steel- ganizations do. The irregular month-| |The committee was also instructed duration only fronand-gold: heart of th rth ty became! regular. Then: it disap. |°0., arrange. fox, 8 Jasge | Fatifoation |” Ts ts onemployment has been hitting | “enraiee aetigey ‘whlch crushed the peared and re-appeared in the form of | ™#8s meeting to be held. immediately the unskilled very hard in this city, t nF 9e x ae oi i eek pos d a bi-weekly. In addition a Junior following ; the -syaatliie a6 jthetbentral this is shown by the fact that the ra ype f in i ean t ee League was organized with a little | COmmittee, this eerie beaphoes, bees Common Laborers’ Union membershi: ae ns: hy ee monthiy organ of their own, called the opening gun in. what ia. § eae is about half employed. Tabor oe - Young Comrade. This. paper has Wehr suneaseiie apt oa ttetad headquarters in this city are besieged Placa gga pbeagacod tees and cuted tin cantealists 1 peedissanpieg ng poe ic Manabi miter, | (eae ase 7 The members of the, committee orkers Appeal to rity woven in erica. But it is not spill gallons ‘of ink in~ their lyin&| vere unanimous in their: desire for A report from one of the charitable | “Southern capital” that installed the sheets, deploring’ the spread of evil! , cicar ‘cut iabor- ticket. Speakers | organizations in this city tells us that|Machimery.. The ways of finance- among the young. But the young reb-| pointed out that the Labor Review |in the month of January 515 able| capital are tortuous and hard to trace, els revel in nage ce and the Daily Star would support the | podied men, heads of families, were| but from the many scattered and reactionary republican, Leach, for re-|giyen help while hundreds of others,| Vague references to the buying of election and would probably attack nas as nine men were turned away,| mills and the building of new mills the labor ticket as “Communist” be- and still others had to be refused] in the south by “New England capital” cause of the fact of members of the because of the limited funds which|it is safe to say that the southern Workers Party being delegates to the institution is compelled’ to work|cotton manufacturing is done under the federation from local unions. Al- with. the same financial control, in the derman John Peterson stated that la- The workers of this city are be-|main, as that of the New England bor must expect to be attacked by|ginning to believe that there was| states. the capitalist press and alleged “pro- | something in the slogan of “Keep with| Indications are that it was the sur- sressive” sheets: such as the Star|icoo} with Koolidge,” as they roam|plus profits of the war times—the and urged a full labor ticket. the street daily in search of the em-| fevered “khaki profiteering,” of 1915- Delegates were seated from several ployment which they are unable to}18 and the after-war splurge up to organizations, among them were Emil tind (Continued on 2 5.) S. Youngdahl from the 10th ward get to support it. farmer-labor club, C. A, Hathaway, - “Yes, by all means,” the DAILY| spectacle across, . M * . 91, WORKER reporter assured him. This Is a novel performance wherein the entire Madison Square Garde: eit fouren, trea ta tome palry Frome WAGES OVER PRE-WAR SCALE iN “The teachers have to spend the fe audience will participate. You are to perform the leading roles. The work, is easy and with some training you can easily perform your act. Send in your name or get in touch with I. Fralkin, care Workers Party 108 East 14th street at once. This is very important, the time Is very short: No speaking is necessary, and every comrade is urged to report at once, Get Jap Out of Bed to Sign Pact with Soviets 'HE youth organization is of the very greatest importance to the working class movement. In every country fn Europe the young militants have been in the front line trenches. They are the future leaders of the Communist movement. “American rad- icals who have children should induce them to join the Junior League and| committee of the Workers Party hay- the Young Workers’ League before! ing previously issued a statement to they become contaminated with the] the effect that they would unite with 100 per cent American bunk that is in#/‘other labor groups on the basis of a jected into their brains in the robot! bor ticket and a working class plat- factories misnamed schools. >) fform., a we ‘The reactionaries led by R. D. UR foreign language Cramer and ex-socialist mayor Tom should see to it that the p Lear are preparing the way for tlons of the Young Workers’ support for Leach. The: Daily get into their homes where they lar (Van Lear's paper) has already be read. by their children, who } torially given their endorsement thus be saved from developing a this arch republican reactionary, for “Hot Dog” the “Fig Leaf,” mer is expected to follow suit in labor club-and A. B. Barker from the Progressive Professional Men’s Club. Cramer to Back Leach, The decision of the central commit- tee to put up a complete labor ticket will probably assure a united front of all labor forces in the Minneapo- ‘lis city campaign, the city central greater part of their lives in those school rooms. And they are the ones who know the needs of the children.” (Continued on page 2) MOSCOW PROVINCE; PRODUCTION UP 30 PER CENT; PARTY GROWS MOSCOW, U. 8S. S. R—In the report given ‘by Comrade Ouglianov, | secretary of the Moscow committee of the Communist Party before the Moscow Party Conference, he stated that there hasebeen a 30 per cent in- crease in industry in the past year, the total comimg to over 518,000,000 I roubles for 1924, as against 397,000,000 for 1923..\The number of workers employed in Moscow industry has increased from 213,000 to 288,000. Industrial development during the past year haw. been especially direc- between workers and peasants, by ted toward strengthening the union lowering production costs to the greatest possible extent. Moscow Wai Pass Pre-War Level. On December 1, 1924, Comrade Ou- giianov reported, the real wages of the workers of Moscow province at- tained to 103 per cent of the pre-war level. In addition, he stated, that the Steady development of industry would Soon make it possible to do away with unemploymententirely. The past year hes beem:characterized by ex- tremely intdmaive work on housing construction. ‘The situation of the peasants is also considerably ithproved in this district. The aréa sown ‘in 1924 was greater than that sowm before the war, 566,000 Pepper” or other salacious literature next few days. which is now deluging the ¢ and turning the minds of the into a moral cesspool, Or still from the dope published in the Am- eriean Magazine or other organs of “snecess” and “ambition.” Ape Se 'HE treaggnable and seditious of- fenses % which the Free State government tntroduced and will surely put thra its paces in the Dail is a] wor vicious }roposal. It contains’ fo paovisions. punishable by death, JANCOCK, MICHIGAN, PLEDGES AID IN IRISH FAMINE RELIEF DRIVE Hardly had the first appeal for Irish famine appeared in the columns of The DAILY WORKER than promises of assistance began to come in. One of the first to respond were the workers of Hancock, Michigan, away up in the copper peninsula. 4 John Kliskila, member of the Workers Party and popular among the ‘kers of the copper country wrote as follows: “The Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee:—Dear | Comrai We intend to get some funds for trish relief. Now, kindly let imprisonment for two years, us know what steps we ought to take. on itter.” fervitude for from five to There is a large group of Irish work jn Hancock and they are good years and by fines up to $2,500, ‘Phis|-stuff, There is no doubt but they will | jerously to the appeal w the kind of work the Free State/ to come to the assistance of thelr f I in comrades in Ireland. hangmen are engaged in whi The Irish famine relief committee — ing the machinery in motion dessiatins having been sown in the past year as against 450,000 dessia- tins in 1914. The number of members in the Mos- cow organization of the Russian Com- munist Party has increased from 74,- 000 members at the time of the 12th Congress to 90,000:members on Janu- ary 1, 1925. An immense amount of work has been done in the fleld of the political education of-party members, 66,000 members and candidates having pass- ed thru schools for political instruc- tion. In closing, Comrade Ouglianov pointed out that the Moscow organiza- tion has not-anly developed numeri- cally, but also in respect to tho strengthening wf ite ideological foun- Ascepted the pact with Soviet Rus: In behalf of Japan from hie slck-bed, he presence of the Soviet envoy, M. Leon Karakhan (seated in foreground). dreds of thousands of workers and} for the launching ef a big drive for funds,,.The plans will be announced (Continued on Page 6)» | shortly, We. oe 4 nn side i ? Minister Yoshizawa | signing his signature in t dations, It is advancing steadily on the paths of Bolshevism, He Is seen LM 0 Widen theta lamas. Ap Saclea